queen : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: queen	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for queen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
queen n the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs a female sovereign ruler Synonym(s): queen, queen regnant, female monarch Antonym(s): Rex, king, male monarch the wife or widow of a king something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners" a competitor who holds a preeminent position Synonym(s): king, queen, world-beater offensive term for an openly homosexual man Synonym(s): fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen (chess) the most powerful piece an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males Synonym(s): queen, queen mole rat female cat Synonym(s): tabby, queen v promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess become a queen; "her pawn queened"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Queen \Queen\, v. i. To act the part of a queen. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Queen \Queen\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Queened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Queening}.] (Chess.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Queen \Queen\, n. [OE. quen, quene, queen, quean, AS. cw[emac]n wife, queen, woman; akin to OS. qu[be]n wife, woman, Icel. kv[be]n wife, queen, Goth. q[emac]ns. [root]221. See {Quean}.] 1. The wife of a king. 2. A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots. In faith, and by the heaven's quene. --Chaucer. 3. A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc. [bd] This queen of cities.[b8] [bd] Albion, queen of isles.[b8] --Cowper. 4. The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites. 5. (Chess) The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen. 6. A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Queen No explicit mention of queens is made till we read of the "queen of Sheba." The wives of the kings of Israel are not so designated. In Ps. 45:9, the Hebrew for "queen" is not _malkah_, one actually ruling like the Queen of Sheba, but _shegal_, which simply means the king's wife. In 1 Kings 11:19, Pharaoh's wife is called "the queen," but the Hebrew word so rendered (g'birah) is simply a title of honour, denoting a royal lady, used sometimes for "queen-mother" (1 Kings 15:13; 2 Chron. 15:16). In Cant. 6:8, 9, the king's wives are styled "queens" (Heb. melakhoth). In the New Testament we read of the "queen of the south", i.e., Southern Arabia, Sheba (Matt. 12:42; Luke 11:31) and the "queen of the Ethiopians" (Acts 8:27), Candace.